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5 Steps To Finding The Best Investor For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels.

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10 Reasons To Market Globally While Selling Locally

Startup Professionals Musings

A UVP sells a product or service because it differentiates it from other products or services that are available. With social media, you can interact more precisely and create custom products and marketing to be almost all things to all people. The broad-brush push-marketing is no longer competitive.

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The Corrosive Nature of Over-Introducers

Both Sides of the Table

I find the over-introducers especially corrosive around first-time founders who often struggle with the balance of their time between tasks like building product versus tasks like speaking at conferences or meeting with potential business development partners. In many instances this help is genuine, well-meaning and productive.

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10 Keys To Results With Social-Local-Mobile Marketing

Startup Professionals Musings

A UVP sells a product or service because it differentiates it from other products or services that are available. With social media, you can interact more precisely and create custom products and marketing to be almost all things to all people. The broad-brush push-marketing is no longer competitive.

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5 Keys To Vetting Investors Before You Accept Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels.

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How the myth of the ‘girlboss’ harms emerging women in tech

TechCrunch LA

billion company in the brutally competitive beauty industry, especially one with such broad appeal. Like with many consumer brands geared toward women, we buy in not just because of the marketing, but because of the product itself. And of course, those startups are by no means innocent when it comes to bad management. “If

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10 Innovative New Global Ways To Grow Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

A UVP sells a product or service because it differentiates it from other products or services that are available. With social media, you can interact more precisely and create custom products and marketing to be almost all things to all people. The broad-brush push-marketing is no longer competitive.